Eric Scheske

The Stretch Rambling A handful of days to go. All kids are home except one, and we expect him to appear late tonight or tomorrow morning. Relevant Radio's "The Inner Life" had a pretty good show on Tuesday (12/18/2018), giving practical spiritual advice for

Miscellaneous Rambling Freaked out by the stock market and what it portends? Don't forget what the economist Paul Samuelson said, "The stock market has correctly forecasted eight of the last four recessions." Not an exact quote, but close . . . and funny. I read last weekend that a

Did I say work would start slowing down? I'm an idiot. Just this today: > I thought the Left wanted to get rid of Barbie because it objectifies women. Now they want Barbie to objectify lesbian women too? I'm so confused. https://t.co/PvNjsbSjsk >

Miscellaneous Rambling Christmas neareth. Far out. This coming week is typically my favorite time of the year: work starts to slow down, older kids start to return home. Unfortunately, my week got off to a rough start Saturday night. I attended Mass in a neighboring village and an older man

> The results of statist socialism, how democrats are eager to get behind this is beyond me [https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/a6jd1u/the_results_of_statist_socialism_how_democrats/] from r/Anarcho_Capitalism [http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism]

> Please do all you can to get word out about this, folks. https://t.co/gVkH2kJ5EK > — Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) December 14, 2018 [https://twitter.com/ericmetaxas/status/1073727759506132992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Brews You Can Use The liver quaketh. Three holiday parties over the next eight nights. And that doesn't include the impromptu parties that are likely to accompany the return of my older children that commences next week. These are fine times. My liver be danged! Wow, the West

> If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner. > — Malcolm Muggeridge (@malmuggeridge) December 6, 2018 [https://twitter.com/malmuggeridge/

St. Stan Totally random, but: You ever read about Stan Musial? Man, the guy was practically a saint, it would seem. A few entries from Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Musial]: > Even though Musial left [his hometown of] Donora after high school, he retained close ties to

Big Boxes, Stylites, Moon Deniers Theodore Dalrymple inveighs against supermarkets [https://www.takimag.com/article/a-regime-of-bread-and-circuses/]. He's lives in England. I think the proper American translation throughout the article is "big box stores" in lieu of "supermarkets." From Terrible Ted: > I dislike supermarkets